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Eminem’s daughter watched her father’s latest music video – and will never do it again.
Hailie Jade, the 28-year-old daughter of the “Without Me” rapper, said on Friday in her podcast “Just a Little Shady” that she cried while watching the video for her father’s song “Somebody Save Me” and found it too emotional to ever watch again.
“I watched it all the way through and I don’t think I can do it again,” she said. “I cry every time I even hear it.”
In the song from Eminem’s latest album, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce),” the Grammy winner mentions his children by name and apologizes to them, saying that he “doesn’t even deserve the title of father.”
“Hailie, I’m so sorry / I know I wasn’t there for your first guitar concert / Didn’t walk you down the aisle / Missed the birth of your first child / Your first podcast, look down on you, sweetie / I’m so proud of what you’ve become,” he raps.
In fact, Eminem and Jade performed a father-daughter dance at their wedding in May. The song seems to imagine a scenario in which the rapper, who has spoken openly about his past struggles with drug addiction, never got clean.
Eminem goes on to tell Hailie in the song that he’s “sorry for choosing drugs and putting them over you” and “for not loving you enough to give them up.” He also apologizes to his children Alaina and Stevie, rapping, “Alaina, I’m sorry you had to hear me fall in the bathroom” and “Stevie, I’m sorry for missing you / Growing up and not being able to / Be the father I wanted to be to you.”
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The music video, which was released last week and features Jelly Roll, also includes private footage of Eminem’s children, Hailie Jade with his ex-wife Kim Scott and Alaina and Stevie with his adopted wives.
Jade shared on the podcast that she was “audibly sobbing” when she heard both “Somebody Save Me” and another new song by her father, “Temporary,” which she’s said to be listening to after his death. “Hailie Jade, I wrote you this song / To help you cope with life now that I’m gone,” he raps on the track.
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“When I watch the video again and listen to the songs, I feel like my parents did such a good job when I was growing up that I didn’t realize how bad things were,” she said. “But now, as an adult looking back, it’s so scary to think about it. I think that’s why I get emotional.”
She added: “If you’ve ever lost an addict or a loved one, I feel for you.” Although she finds it too emotional to watch again, Jade said the “Somebody Save Me” video was “great” and it was “fun to see snippets of us when we were younger.”
In “Houdini,” a more lighthearted song from The Death of Slim Shady, Eminem insults a number of people, including himself and “my own children,” calling them “brats.”
Eminem, who released “The Death of Slim Shady” last month, celebrated his 16-year anniversary of sobriety in April. He previously said on the podcast “Paul Pod: Curtain Call 2” that he nearly died of a drug overdose in 2007 and at times took “75 (or) 80 Valium a night.”
In 2010, the rapper said in an interview with The New York Times Magazine that his children helped him stay sober, telling the magazine, “I love them so much and they’ve helped me with so many things.”
